I really should just buy the right car in the first place, e92 M3 gone, replaced with....

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So in my never ending quest to sample the delights of the motoring world I traded my 6 month old M3 in against this GTR! Maintenance fees came down a lot here over the last 12 months and my mileage has gone from 30k a year to 6k which opens up a lot of choices again.

The dealer made a serious error describing the car for me which allowed me to get the car for $7k under the already very good asking price AND a 2 year extended warranty with a year's free servicing thrown in. Top this off with 4 new tyres and new brakes all around, it was a damn good deal!

Some quick pics for now, I'll get some more up this week when I've had it cleaned and tinted. Enjoy!

 

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another fantastic car Dave, nicely done.

I remember your jammie deal with the S2000, do car garages just have hillarious paperwork errors whenever your nearby?

I was having the same conversation with my wife and parents about this. I'm half expecting to hear my salesman is now dead through ritual suicide on a sword.

I'm very impressed with it so far and I got such an incredible deal I could sell it today for $5k more than I bought it for. Unfortunately my friend has a Switzer P1000 here so it feels rather slow compared to that, mods incoming I guess!

 

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Wow, what on earth happened here?!

Ok lets start in order.

The person in the pictures that you're commenting on Robbie is my adopted son, i'll be sure to relay the message for you.

Second, I always get good deals since I work with people who can buy cars at trade price from OVE. This however wasn't a good deal, it was *incredible*. I had no intention of buying it, nor did I even know the dealer had the car when I went there, I was actually looking at 370z's for my wife and saw they had a red GTR on the showroom floor.

The first salesman told me the car was an '11 with 900 miles on it for $76k which is bang on what you can buy one TRADE for, perhaps even a touch under so it instantly piqued my interest. After appraising my M3 and getting the numbers on the GTR, one of the sales managers comes over to assist on the deal to answer any questions I may have and to start the tedious negotiations. Naturally I wanted to know the in service date so I could know how long was left on the warranty. Well he comes back and tells me the first part of the warranty will expire in less than a year; cue shocked look on my wife and I's faces. Turns out the car's an '09 with 8k miles on it!

$76k for a dealer car is still a good price for an '09 in perfect condition with those miles, I was constantly calling my trade friend to make sure of what I was doing. We actually got up and walked away after they wouldn't budge on the price but the dealership principle stopped me before we got to the door and asked us to sit down. They sent the salesman home and I think let him go permanently too, then asked the old classic "what can we do to make this happen?"

I threw out a completely unreasonable offer, $70k WITH an extended warranty and a year's free servicing. It had already had a new set of tyres too which is $2k I don't have to worry about. Thanks to my wonderful English charm, I got the deal and signed immediately . Still think it's not a staggeringly good deal? Oh and I only lost $8k on the M3 in 13k miles, to me that's pretty damn good too.

I'm pretty sure I don't post here just to show how I spent Daddy's money, as Gibbo said if my father were buying me a car now, it wouldn't be a GTR, it would be a 458 or an Aventador, unfortunately I'm poor and have to slum it in a Nissan

I'm an honest poster, I simply post here because I like to share what I have with other like minded people; a good few of whom I know personally and even used to work with.

I think this clears everything up, I'll be sure to check this thread for the continuing inquisition when I'm done in surgery today being a selfish jerk.

 

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In the US the '11 is the same as the '09. The new more powerful tweaked model is the '12 over here so don't get those confused! '12's are up for over $100k here now too because of the tsunami killing the supply, which is insane given the MSRP is only $92k for those.

An '09 with low miles here is worth mid to high 70's, so for me to walk out with a minter for $70k including a two year extended warranty is an incredible price. Even trade price dealer to dealer is 73-74k on a car like mine.

 

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*Criiiinge*

Anyway, I still don't understand why the dealer would sell you a car that's worth mid to high 70s for $70k. You say you get good deals because you know people, but the initial list price, available to the general public, was supposedly only $76k? It just doesn't add up, but hey-ho.

Honestly they should've let us walk out but the dealer owner is a very moral and ethical man. I'm sure they still made a couple of k from me given they bought the car from the widow of a friend of the dealership owner. I wasn't expecting a deal like this to come together but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

 

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Is this it http://autos.aol.com/used-detail-4308976763209681422-Nissan-GT_R-2009/

Why would the dealer say it was an 11 with 900 miles when on the the web it says 09 and 8k miles.

Was it the dealers first day at his new job? Interesting

Yes that's the one. As I said before, I didn't even know the dealer had the car, I had no intentions of buying at the time!

Just human error I suppose. I have nothing to gain by making a story up. It's not like I couldn't afford it if it was $76k.


No I'm not kidding about my son, he's 14, I adopted him this summer.

 

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I would have thought all salesmen/women would know what stock they had and details of the car.

99% of the Nissan salesmen know nothing about the GTR, this want surprising to me, nor was it the first time.